State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash?

[brooklynite]

Source: WABC

In New York state, even as cabinet-level officials began to prepare an orderly transition by briefing Lt. Gov. David Paterson on key details of their components of the government in anticipation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer stepping down, criminal justice officials launched a preliminary inquiry into how the disgraced governor slipped his security detail while traveling, state sources told ABC News.

ABC News has learned that Spitzer routinely tried to push off the one or two state police officers who accompanied him out of town, suggesting to the troopers that they didn't need to accompany him as he went to the gym or telling them he was going to turn in early.

Currently, senior officials have asked the New York State Police to take a hard look to determine what, if anything, members of the security detail could or should have known. So far, it does not appear those troopers "looked the other way" and turned a blind eye to the governor's alleged trysts.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4430010&page=1

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I offer this not for purient interest, but as an example of the sort of sidebar stories we can look forward to seeing every day that this issue isn't resolved.

[islandmkl]

1. what? did Rudy leave behind some manuals for New York politicians....

and how to get rid of Security?


or how to keep their mouths shut anyway....

[JeanGrey]

3. Spitzer's security details were briefed by ex state troopers

from Arkansas.

[defendandprotect]

2. And wouldn't they have been the FIRST to know what was goin' on . . ???